TUMBLEWEED php7 is only available whith version 7.2 and i don't find way to install 7.1 version

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Re: php7 is only available whith version 7.2 and i don't find way to install 7.1 version

I don't see any php71 repo for Tumbleweed. I've updated to php7.2 by mistake, and there is no repo (even experimental) to switch back to php7.1.
What should I do? Is Tumbleweed going to support only 7.2 from now on?

Re: php7 is only available whith version 7.2 and i don't find way to install 7.1 version

Originally Posted by momic

I don't see any php71 repo for Tumbleweed. I've updated to php7.2 by mistake, and there is no repo (even experimental) to switch back to php7.1.
What should I do? Is Tumbleweed going to support only 7.2 from now on?

Thx

I don't think Tw is going to have 7.1 back. If this is about Nextcloud too, upgrade your Nextcloud to the most recent ( 14 ) version

Re: php7 is only available whith version 7.2 and i don't find way to install 7.1 version

Otherwise if you really need PHP 7.1,
The alternative I'd recommend is to use your choice of virtualization(or multi-boot) to build an openSUSE 15 or 42.3, both which apparently still support going back to PHP7.1.22 by adding the "devel:languages:php:php71" repo.

This second option is what I do all the time (specific vms to build software) to avoid mucking up my base OS.

Re: php7 is only available whith version 7.2 and i don't find way to install 7.1 version

Originally Posted by Knurpht

Tumbleweed snapshots is not going to help here.

@momic: what application needing php7.1 are we talking about?

I need php7.1 for local development and personal projects that rely on php7.1

Tumbleweed has no officially supported php7.1 repos, and even Leap(LTS) 15/42.3 has only experimental php7.1 repo but it does not cover all packages (like php7-redis and php7-intl for example). I was able to install from them on Tumbleweed but since my code depends on php7-redis and php7-intl I couldn't do much without building it from source. I know I could use virtualization for development like vagrant/docker, but wouldn't it be better to have option of multiple php versions side by side? But I guess openSuSE does not have proper naming of packages to support that. On the other hand other distros gives you option to install multiple versions of php with proper package naming from many community repos.

openSuSE gives you maintenance support up to 3 years for Leap.
Leap 15.0 - is expected to be maintained until end of November 2019
Leap 42.3 - is expected to be maintained until June 30 2019
So up to one year left and with experimental repos for php7.1 it does not provide enough trust and confidence to use it.